Track 1: Teaching and Learning
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Location: Track 1A + 1B: Nador 13, 416 and 412/A - see floor map
Track Chairs:
Helga Dorner • Central European University, Hungary and Rie Troelsen • University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
The EAIR forum aims to create a space for presenting, discussing and assessing in a cohesive manner cooperation, competition and complementarity in higher education. When it comes to teaching and learning in higher education, this track provides participants with the possibility to engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). SoTL is all about cooperation and complementarity in the way that teachers systematically analyse their teaching, document their reflections and share their findings with colleagues. SoTL is, in other words, “making transparent how learning has been made possible” (Trigwell, 2012) and this transparency both builds on and builds up cooperation and complementarity. SoTL and the development of teaching and learning is, however, also seen as in competition with the research strand at universities – how can improvements of the teaching and learning experience be recognised and acknowledged in a setting where research intentions and outputs play a vital role? Hence, becoming engaged in SoTL is not just about teachers and students making their learning processes visible, it is also about leaders and managers setting the scene and creating the organisational possibilities for being engaged in SoTL (Mårtensson, Roxå & Olsson, 2011).
Given this overall scope, this track searches for submissions (theoretical papers, literature reviews, empirical papers, case studies) focused on teaching and learning, exploring some of the following topics:
- Policies related to teaching and learning in higher education.
- The place of teaching (in relation to research) in university careers.
- Possibilities and limits for teaching based on the relationship teaching-learning-research.
- Improving teaching and learning through course design.
- Teaching methods for active learning including the use of technology.
- Assessment as a way to improve learning.
- Students as Partners in teaching and learning.
- Internationalising the curriculum.
